The Wilderness and Wellness Podcast - Tyson Yunkaporta: Sand Talk – How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

Tyson Yunkaporta: Sand Talk – How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

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11/15/21 • 78 min

The Wilderness and Wellness Podcast

Join me and co-host Fil Tkaczyk for a “proper yarn” with Tyson Yunkaporta about:

· The idea of what it means to live within and through multiple associations, ideals, and ways of thinking.

· Tyson’s indigenous and cultural roots.

· How everything that is real about who we are is not necessarily only within ourselves, but within the connections of our relations.

· What a “proper yarn” is and means.

· Developing a relationship with place and society’s ideas of who should have a voice based on perceived identities and social fragmentation.

· The idea of emergence for cultural change and tracking patterns.

· How everything in the world is surrounded by sex and death.

Connect with Tyson:

Deakin University Faculty Profile

Book Recommendations:

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, by: Tyson Yunkaporta

Connect with Fil:

[email protected]

Animism: Listening to the Land Podcast on Apple

Animism: Listening to the Land Podcast Facebook Page

Animism: Listening to the Land Podcast Instagram Page

Join me and co-host Fil Tkaczyk for a “proper yarn” with Tyson Yunkaporta about:

· The idea of what it means to live within and through multiple associations, ideals, and ways of thinking.

· Tyson’s indigenous and cultural roots.

· How everything that is real about who we are is not necessarily only within ourselves, but within the connections of our relations.

· What a “proper yarn” is and means.

· Developing a relationship with place and society’s ideas of who should have a voice based on perceived identities and social fragmentation.

· The idea of emergence for cultural change and tracking patterns.

· How everything in the world is surrounded by sex and death.

Connect with Tyson:

Deakin University Faculty Profile

Book Recommendations:

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, by: Tyson Yunkaporta

Connect with Fil:

[email protected]

Animism: Listening to the Land Podcast on Apple

Animism: Listening to the Land Podcast Facebook Page

Animism: Listening to the Land Podcast Instagram Page

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